Tourniquet says:
i'm probably
going to get a lot of hate for this.
but in what world are women a minority? at best, you're talking about portions of percentages per person. (woo, alliteration)
ed: there are .02% more men than women on the planet in countries with a population greater than 200k.
Today, I received an e-mail from MoveOn.org asking me to donate five dollars in order to fund a new commercial attacking Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The commercial would focus on the prospect of Trump getting his hands on America's nuclear weapons. As the e-mail stated:
Donald Trump's climbing in the polls.1 It's time to go nuclear. (In a way.)
MoveOn made an important discovery in the course of our intensive research this summer: A key bloc of swing voters appears to be most strongly persuaded to vote against Trump when confronted with the threat of his finger on the nuclear button.2
As part of this research effort, our Video Lab made an ad, ran the video online to show it to voters in swing states, and teamed up with researchers at the Analyst Institute to study its effectiveness—and the results blew us away.
In our controlled study, men over the age of 30 who watched our video about Trump's finger on the nuclear button were seven percentage points more likely to support Clinton over Trump, compared to those who didn't watch the ad.
Given his at times erratic behavior, concerns over Trump getting the bomb are understandable. However, the people at Move On failed to consider the issue of their own candidate getting the bomb, which is arguably concerning in its own right.
My Gut Reaction: Somehow, I don't think someone who threatens to annihilate Iran is a safe option for the presidency, either.
More below the fold...
All states have now decided the ballot status of the Green Party's Jill Stein for president of the United States.
Rhode Island, the last state to decide, will allow Stein on the ballot. This gives her direct access to 44 state ballots, plus Washington D.C. These account for access to 480 total electoral college votes. It takes 270 votes to win the presidency outright.
This is an essay that I had originally posted at TOS, but I have cut it up, and have performed some editing (removed a few expletives, tried to fix some grammar lol) and sliced into several smaller, easily digestible "parts", this being part 1, of 5.
REALITY CHECK
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I wanted to write something for the 9/11 anniversary but couldn't decide what angle to take. There are so many angles. There's the obvious angle, who really did it? The evidence. The third building, WTC7 that fell like a pancake. The dancing Israeli's. The "New Pearl Harbor" prediction by the neocons who took charge under Bush. Did a plane really hit the Pentagon, or was that a missile? Did Bush and Cheney know? The list goes on and on.
No, not that September 11th. I mean September 11th, 1973, when the CIA, ITT corporation, Nixon and Kissinger coordinated a military coup overthrowing a democratically-elected regime under Salvador Allende and imposing the world's first genuinely neoliberal government under a junta headed by Augusto Pinochet. So okay here's the death toll:
It is certainly unpatriotic to suggest that our "exceptional" Nation would condone and encourage the sexual abuse of children by our noble partners in the struggle against Terrorist Extremism just as it would be to imply that we would deliberately bomb Hospitals, First Responders, and Civilians or support a systematic campaign by our upstanding and virtuous allies to do so.
I would never do something like that.
It’s been 15 years since an unelected administration put us on the permanent war footing we inhabit today, and transformed our nation utterly.
I wish I could say a terrible beauty is born, but unlike the Irish revolution, the post-9-11 American state can claim no beauty to accompany its terrors.
This essay will offer no earth shattering insights, simply a wry shake of the head at how invincibly stupid, smug, and elitist the Clinton campaign is. The field is tightening and at this exact moment, HRC decides to repeat the strategy that made numbers of Bernie Sanders supporters recoil permanently from her candidacy; instead of disparaging and disagreeing with the opponant and his stances, she makes personal attacks against the character of his supporters.
